Quotes About Competition

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.

The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

The world was never so resplendent with opportunity as it is today. On every hand there is an ever-increasing demand for the services of the man or the woman who makes a better mouse-trap or performs better stenographic service or preaches a better sermon or digs a better ditch or runs a more accommodating bank.

the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.

Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more "efficient." - The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. - You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. - With terminal disease, nature lets you die with abbreviated suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying. -

Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

you have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

There is something nonphilosophical about investing one's pride and ego into a "my house/ library/ car is bigger than that of others in my category"—it is downright foolish to claim to be first in one's category all the while sitting on a time bomb.

Life would be unbearably bland if we had no enemies on whom to waste efforts and energy.

If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!

wealth is seen as zero-sum.

Este mult mai dificil s? pierzi într-un joc pe care l-ai pus la punct tu însuÈ›i.

Someone getting rich is doing so at other people's expense

What did not kill me did not make me stronger, but spared me because i am stronger than others; but it killed others and the average population is now stronger because the weak are gone.

we would see that their wishes and hopes are almost invariably at someone else's expense.

An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly

I said that taking a "scalable" profession is not a good idea, simply because there are far too few winners in these professions.

He felt justified to show that "he fared well relative to the industry.

jealousy is to be found within the same art, talent, and condition.*10